South Australian satellite start-up Myriota has teamed up with the Australian Institute of Marine Science to deploy marine drifters with satellite-connected sensors that can track currents, sea surface water temperature and barometric pressure of the ocean in real time.

As Australians continue to make do with a half-baked broadband service, New Zealand has indicated that it would be reducing prices for its ultra-fast broadband services as it announced that half a million had taken up the service.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab has opened its first data processing unit and transparency centre in Zurich and has announced that from 13 November, all malicious and suspicious content encountered by users of its products in Europe will be processed in the Swiss city.